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A WELL-KNOWN and trusted Labour leader remarked, not very long age, to the writer of the present article, apropos the scientific assessment of food requirements, that “Science leaves me cold.” Labour, in common with other parties in the community, has to learn that, unpalatable or no, scientific truth must be faced squarely. Unless the conduct of affairs be laid securely on a sound, scientific basis, and not on sentimentalism, the social edifice will collapse. It is constantly forgotten that the scientific dictum of to-day usually becomes the hackneyed commonplace of to-morrow.
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C., E. Food Requirements and the Minimum Wage. Nature 106, 284–286 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106284a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106284a0